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The evening sky was full of curious sprites, neon static
electricity gridding itself across the sky with the ravenous
urgency of something organic. Underneath this spectacle stood
Basteel in solitary contemplation. The marble statue before
him sat deathly still, its pallid countenance betraying nothing
of its vast life. Of all those who stared at it in the same
way that Basteel did, even the great writers, artists, and
emperors--those legendary figures who had chiseled the
great edifice of history-- had failed to make any impression on
its marmoreal flesh. Time and space collapsed in that blank
stare, rendered meaningless by the marble's total apathy.
Outside the window, some unthinking daemon carved up the
sky, anticipating the moment when the stars would come out
so it could test its mettle against them. History boiled
wildly, at one moment a vicious froth of transmutation,
at the next the exact same placid sea that it was a day ago.